How can material objects help us better understand the complex, contested, and sometimes contradictory history of philanthropy? This question guides the new special issue of The Public Historian, “Material Culture as a Methodology for the History of Philanthropy,” guest edited by Amanda Moniz. Moniz
This year's annual conference of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is being hosted jointly with the Utah Historical Society from April 10-14, 2024, in Salt Lake City, UT. We are pleased to publish the NCPH's flagship journal, The Public Historian (TPH), in partnership with the NCPH. For
NCPH 2023, with the theme “To Be Determined,” was held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 12-15, 2023. In conjunction with the conference, the editors of The Public Historian curated a list of previously published articles that focus in some way on the Gate City or on Georgia. The articles below include res
Timed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, "Queering Public History," a special issue of The Public Historian, guest-edited by Melinda Marie Jetté, assesses the state of the field of queer public history. The twelve essays Jetté has gathered tell a stor